In 1947, Delta Tau Delta, now known as Bones Gate, was disqualified from the contest for the best Winter Carnival sculpture because its sculpture of an Indian leaning against the house holding a mug of beer was not free-standing.

Douglas Leigh ’46 used pine timbers and one tall slender tree from the river area and secured them into the ground to produce the shape of the figure.

Carved out of two tons of orange juice concentrate, in 1950, Sigma Nu’s sculpture of a woman riding a dolphin was shipped 1,500 miles from Florida in a refrigerated train car.

But the statue did not remain standing for long — brothers spent much of the weekend chipping away at the statue to mix with gin or vodka.